Dear Tony
I'm sorry I let a rant run away.....
Basically modern presses are very very flexible and can be controlled a bit like a very sophisticated colour enlarging head. The control of ink levels allows a huge swing to be used. As far as dot gain is concerned this used to be a necessary evil. Now with high quality papers and inks the dot gain is a kind of measure of the amount of control the machine minder wants on the job.
Don't forget that before the days of colour management and ICC profiles people were flying printing film around the world to printers in Singapore, Spain, Italy, Malaysia and many more and getting perfect consistency.
Bob Croxford
On 12 Aug 2004, at 10:52, Tony Riley wrote:
Bob,
When I asked 'how can they get away with it' I was really asking how
they can be achieving consistently acceptable work when they appear to
be ignoring the best practice, particularly in using default colour
settings for cmyk conversions.
You appear to have suffered from lousy quality product even though you
no doubt supplied high quality files, whilst these guys appear to be
paying scant attention to conversion settings etc but still achieving
very acceptable results. I know we can argue what constitutes acceptable
till the cows come home but their results are well inside acceptability
for most people.
tony riley surrey variety
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